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Friday, March 14, 2008

Love is a warm muffin

The semester has started with a vengeance.This semester I’m tutoring for a first-year subject.For North Americans, aussie uni classes are split up into 2-hour lectures and 1-hour tutorials.Tutorials are small groups (10 to 20) where students are meant to discuss the readings and lectures.I’m leading two tutorials a week, but luckily I only need to prepare once!

The start of the semester just had to coincide with a crazy few weeks of field work.I have regular meetings in addition to community forums, morning teas, Sorry Business, and an upcoming trip to a nation-wide rally.

If I were living alone, I would be eating crap—cold leftovers, tinned spaghetti, soy ice cream.But luckily, when I get home late dinner is often cooked, or has at least been started.Like Tuesday, I got home just before 7 to the smell of something baking.

Andy made these carob muffins for me, even though he’s not a big fan of muffins.They’re from a mix, which I got at an organic shop a few months back when it was reduced to clear. The first ingredient is chickpea flour; they are dairy free, egg free, gluten free, low in fat and high in fibre.

With the leftover batter, Andy made a little slice, with peanuts mixed through and coconut on top.

Neither of us are huge fans of carob (I think it’s good, but I don’t think it tastes like chocolate at all), but coming home to warm muffins is such a nice experience! And, they have been great to bring to uni for a healthy snack to combat mid-afternoon slump.

The freshly-baked yumminess didn’t stop at sweets, though.Dinner was baking away in the oven at the same time—baked potatoes (and two cloves of garlic roasting away).

We had the potatoes topped with some leftover burrito filling, olive and caper tapenade, tofu mayonnaise, satay dip which was reduced to clear at the shop, and BBQ sauce.It may sound like a weird mix, but somehow it worked!The photo, however, did not, so I’ll leave you with a Nacho picture instead…

Updated to add the link to this article, about protests against kangaroo culling in the ACT. The reason I'm linking it is because AR folks are working together with Indigenous elders, which I think is just great!

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Naco is so, so, SO cute in that bowl! And I'm glad you posted that link to the kangaroo culling thing, because I have been wondering about how Aussies are responding to it (it was kind of big news over her for a few days) and thought you might have the inside scoop... :)

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